iniquity and in the dark power and man of sin what hast thou to do to talk of obedience who art reconciled to thy lust and sin reigns in thee and thou art blind in the broad way that leads unto death as thy fruits makes it manifest who lives in strife and envy 6 Quer. Whether did not the man Christ suffer as a publike person in the Elects stead or in their behalf and for that end that none who believed in him might dye eternally Answ There thou blind guide makes many replyes but still one and the same thing but thou makes it manifest that thou dost not know the man Christ at all nor his sufferings for death reigns in thee yet that hath passed over all men that asks this Querie for a publike person Christ is not to thee but a mystery which thou knows nothing of and for the redeeming of the Elect from under such mouths as thine did and doth Christ suffer and those that are brought to believe denies such dumb Idol shepherds as thee who as yet doth not believe and therefore shall dye eternally 7 Quer. Whether the sufferings of Christ now in his Saints be all the satisfaction that is made to or which the Justice of God looks for for sins past present and to come Answ There thou blasphemer asks thou knows not what is not Christ the same now as ever and is not the sufferings of Christ satisfactory where ever What wilt thou have to satisfie if the sufferings of Christ do not satisfie let all people take notice what a blasphemer thou art or what they can learn of such a one as thee who knows neither the Justice of God nor the sufferings of Christ in his Saints 8. Quer. Whether was not that body of Jesus which consisted of flesh blood and bone and which was offered upon the Cross at Jerusalem the one and onely Sacrifice for sin God accepted and to which alone exclusively the Saints before under the Law and the Saints since under the Gospel did and do look to be justified by without any other works Answ Here again thou art replying thy former sottish Queries which rises out of thy dark mind concerning the body of Jesus as the Devil did about the body of Moses let thy mouth be stopt here for the body of Jesus thou knows not nor what it consists on and the offering of it up thou knows nothing of but what thou knows hears by the outward Letter that it was offered up at Jerusalem and the Sacrifice for sin thou knowst not and thou art none of the Saints neither under the Law nor under the Gospel but art without in the world in the broad way blind leading the blind into the ditch and for thee the body of Christ is no satisfaction and thou Reprobate what hast thou to do to talk of believing for that is the condition of the Saints they do believe and are justified and their works thou knows not thou disobedient one upon whom God will render vengeance in flaming fire 9 Quer. Whether there be not another righteousness by which the Saints are justified in the sight of God than that which Christ works in them and by them Ans There thou accursed art made manifest who preaches another Gospel and would have another righteousness then that of Christ here thou beast to whom the plagues of God is due and upon whom his wrath must be accomplished here thou hast made thy self manifest thou who would have another righteousness then the righteousness of Christ which he works in the Saints and by them and so thou would be justified and live in thy sin but thou art shut out from God for ever and we witness justification by Faith and the just shall live by his Faith 10 Quer. Whether doth sanctification or justification in order antecede holiness of life or Justification by Faith go before or whether doth not God love man ere man loved God Answ Here thou dark blind hypocrite hath shut thy self out from the knowledge of God in any measure oh that ever people should be so blind as to look for to learn any thing at such a one as thee but sin and filthiness and what hast thou been teaching them all this while that neither knows Sanctification nor Justification yet but art yet querying whether goes before let all people judge if thou be not a teacher of lasciviousness sin and uncleanness and how darest thou mention a holy life or Justification by Faith which knows neither Justification nor Sanctification And thee man which art Cain God doth not love nor accept thee nor thy Sacrifice and for Justification by Faith thou knowst nothing of it which we own and witness and thou who art in envy doth not love God 11 Quaer Whether the justice of God be not fully satisfied for all the sins of the Elect ere Christ appear to their souls or holiness appear in their lives Answ Here thou full of all subtilty art comprehended and with the light of Christ thou art seen and with the life judged and condemned who would lay sin to the charge of the Elect when the Scripture saith Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods Elect It is God that justisieth who shall condemn The soul that sinneth shall dye Thou sorcerer doth the Elect of God sin shall the Elect dye to that in thy Conscience I speak 12 Quaer Whether the holy lives or holy works of the Saints be not excluded from the act of Justification from the guilt of sin Answ Thou dead beast hath made it manifest that thou art a stranger from the life of God and is excluded from the holy life of the Saints and their works who art querying whether this be not excluded from Justification Oh that ever thou should open thy mouth to take upon thee to speak of the Scripture doth not the Apostle say 1 Pet. 1. 18. Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from your vain conversation but with the precious blood of Christ as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot who verily was ordained before the foundation of the world was but was manifest in these last times for you who by him do believe in God that raised him up from the dead Now let all people read this chapter and try thee who knows nothing of Jesus Christ but as thou hast heard of him crucified at Jerusalem and so thou art unredeemed from thy vain conversation and so art not justified before God nor never shall be but those that can witness Redemption by the blood of Christ as all the Saints of God do are justified and by the same that they are justified thou art condemned in the Lake for ever 13 Quer. Whether is that righteousness which is wrought by the Saints every way answerable to the justice of God Answ There again thy blindness is made manifest is there any righteousness but that of Jesus Christ
and is not that every way answerable to the justice of God but such polluted filthy beasts as thou would have another righteousness as thou speaks plainly in thy ninth query but all thy righteousness we deny and the righteousness of Jesus Christ we own and witness whose righteousness shall be revealed upon thee in flames of fire 14 Quer. Whether none be accounted righteous in Gods sight in whom there is any corruption or failing or who do not fulfil the Law and answer every demand of Justice Answ Here thou polluted beast hath made it manifest what thou hast been driving at all this while in thy queries which is that thou would have corruption and filthiness to be accounted righteous in Gods sight that so thou might lie and wallow in thy sins and filthiness but John saith that he that commits sin is of the Devil for the devil sinneth from the beginning and for this purpose the son of God was made manifest that he might destroy the works of the Devil and thou man of sin would have it to stand but those that loves God keeps his Commandments and they are not grievous and God doth not accept any where there is any failing or who do not fulfil the Law and answer every demand of Justice and he doth reserve the unjust unto the day of Judgement to be punished 2 Pet. 2. 9. and chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and there thou art 15 Quer. Whether a soul be justifyed before God by the non-imputation of sin and the imputation of the righteousness of the person of Christ to his Faith or by a righteousness wrought by Christ in the person justified or to be justified Answ Here stop thy mouth thou sorcerer which art gathering up a heap of confusion which is fit for nothing but to be turned with thee into the bottomless pit from whence it comes wherein thou talks of imputation and non-imputation and of a person justified and to be justified thy language is of Egypt and in the mysterie of iniquity thou speaks it which is condemned into the lake of perdition by the light of Christ and in the light thou and it are seen and comprehended and as I told thee before I own no righteousness but what is of Christ and wrought by thee which righteousness shall confound thee and all thy unrighteousness and conjuration and the same that justifies us shall condemn thee eternally 16 Quaer Whether Christ be in his Saints in respect of that nature wherein he suffered at Jerusalem Answ Here thou Enemy of Christ would know how the Saints enjoy Christ here the Scripture is fulfilled in thee The light shines in darkness and darkness comprehends it not When thou comes to own thy condemnation the light in thy conscience it will let thee see thy evil deeds it will lead thee up to Christ from whence it comes and then thou wilt know that nature that he suffered in but now thou art in that nature that Judas was in that betrayed him and that they were in that crucified him 17 Quaer How and after what manner Christ who in respect of his divine nature is infinite and in all places may be said to be in a Saint and not in a Reprobate Answ What hast thou to do to querie after the divine nature who art the natural man that knows nothing of God bâ—t what thou knows naturally as a bruit beast and knows not the things that be of God because they are spiritually discerned and the manner of Christs divine nature which is infinite is hid from thy eyes for of that eye which thou shouldst see that with thou art blind and his manner of being in a Saint thou knows not who art a Reprobate and thou shalt find him to be thine eternal condemnation 18 Quaer Whether doth Christ now in these dayes assume or take upon him the form of a servant and the seed of Abraham that is our flesh And whether doth not this assumption cause such a perfection of the Godhead and the manhood as that both of them are united together into one person Answ Oh thou dark beast and Conjurer who art querying with thy conjured words that which thou knows nothing of and which is out of thy reach and comprehension Thou blasphemer dost thou limit Christ to daies in taking upon him the form of a servant and the seed of Abraham Is not he the same now as ever he was And for the Union of the Godhead and the Manhood as thou calls it let thy mouth be stopt for with the God nor none of his children hath any union for God hath put an utter enmity betwixt thy seed thou Serpent and the seed of the woman and the perfect union with Christ we witness who is the same to day yesterday and for ever and therefore are we separate from thee and thy generation 19. Quaer Whether is Christ now conversant upon earth amongst men since his ascension as he was before and in those times wherein the Apostles lived Answ In thy Queries thy speech bewrays thee thy language is the language of Egypt for in it thou makes it clearly manifest that thou knows not Christ at all not in the least measure for where the first Principle of truth is made manifest it is the same that ever was and never changes And thou asks whether Christ be now conversant upon earth amongst men since his ascension as he was in the Apostles time Dost thou know what thou askes Did he not appear to the Apostles since his ascension in the most glorious manner that ever thou read and is he not the same now as he was then What would thou make of him thou dark sottish beast such a one as thy self who would be pleading for darkness and ignorance of God but praise and glory to him who hath discovered thee and all such deceivers as thou art 20. Quaer Whether did not Christ dwell among his Saints after another and more visible manner than now he dwels in his Saints Answ There again thou hast shewed thy ignorance of the Scripture and for thy word Visible he is not nor never was visible to thee nor to thy generation for those that did profess the Scriptures as thou and thy generation doth crucified him and said he was of the Devil and thou and such as thou art doth now Thou blasphemer where hast thou a Scripture that saith that Christ would dwell in his Saints after anothere manner Did he not say It is expedient for you that I goe away and I go and prepare a place for you and I will come again and receive you unto my self and where I am there you may be also and ye have heard how I have said I go away and that where I am there you may be also and that I have said I go away and come again unto you and if ye loved me ye would rejoice because I go unto the Father And Christ Iesus
reverence be it spoken must acquit the man though in himself ungodly for payment being made satisfaction given by the surety it is but just that the debtor be acquitted and discharged shall not the judge of all the world do right yea God is just and will declare his righteousnesse by justifying him that believeth in Jesus Now God the Father having thus reconciled the world unto himself by Christ for the farther carrying on of this work commits the ministery and service of this reconciliation to his Apostles and Ministers in their successive generations who as Heralds and Ambassadors authorized and commissionated by him should publish and in his na e preach the glad tydings of salvation this everlasting Gospell And to let all men even the Gentiles see what hope there is of their fellowship and participation of the blessings and benefits of this mysterie of godlinesse which from the begining of the world have bin hid in God who created all things by Jesus Christ no nation people or person being now excluded or shut out the partition wall of Jewish ordinances being broken down and both Jew Gentile bond and free male and female all may come drink freely of that well of salvation which Christ hath opened for all persons that will come unto him whereof for his part he is so free being no niggard of his blood and merits that he intreats all to come and partake of And by his servants making a full tender of himself as Priest Prophet and King to all that will receive him And to as many as thus receive him giving them right power and just claime to become the sons of God and heires of the kingdome which he had purchased But now man by his fall being dead in the dark yea darknesse it self and so in his natural state and blindness unable to receive and comprehend this glorious and gracious mysterie of being righteous by anothers righteousness and of being saved by anothers sufferings all men Jewes and Gentiles doting and being fruitlesly set upon seeking life and happiness by their own doings and performances Therefore together with the revelation of this mysterie by the ministry of his servants sent for that purpose Christ over and above that common work of the Spirit by which he enlightens every man that comes into the world gives unto those who are given him of the Father and who are to be called according to the eternal decree and purpose which he purposed in himself and whereby he surely knowes those that are and shal be his to them he gives a mind and understanding to know him and to receive him and to be in him and to be one with him who is the true God and eternal life And now a believer having Christ who is eternal life hath eternal life in and by Christ whereas those who thus have him not sc by believing have not eternal life because what in them lies they make God a liar not entertaining and closing with that testimony and record that he gave of his son which was that in him he was well pleased not onely with him for so he could not but be in justice forhe had never offended him But in him he was well pleased being in mercy and loving kindnes satisfied for the sins of all those who come unto God by him who therefore are received as sons and daughters by free grace and adoption And now that those who thus believe in Christ might have the witness in themselvs of their Sonship because they are sons God sends forth the Spirit of his Son into their hearts whereby they are imboldned to call upon God as Sons crying Abba Father being thereunto the more imboldned because by the same Spirit they are sealed and marked out unto the day of redemption And which is given to them as a pledge and earnest in hand for an assurance to them of their full inheritance when their adoption and son-ship shall be compleated by the redemption of their bodies from the power of Corruption as now their soules are from the reign and power of sin The same spirit also in the meane time leading them into all saving truth comforting them in all their troubles and helping them in all their infirmities And thus hath a Believer in himself the testimony both of blood and of the spirit witnessing to and with his spirit that he is a son and child of God But then as there are three in Heaven that bear record and give testimony to this great mysterie of godliness sc The Father the word the holy Ghost So there are must be three witnesses on earth i. The heart of a true believer before the work can be compleated which are three the Spirit Blood and Water For Christ came not by blood alone for justification nor by water onely for sanctification but by water and blood both which Sacramentally flowed forth from his precious body when he hung upon the Crosse a Sacrifice for our redemption thereby shewing forth the end of his suffering viz. both the justification sanctification of his people And therefore he that hath not the witness testim within himself of all three hath not the witness of either he whose heart conscience cannot witnes to him his faith believing in that blood of Christ shed for his justification cannot have the witness of this blood as water for cleanâ—ing and sanctification For Christ sanctifies none but whome he justifies he whose heart cannot witnes to him his faith operating on the blood of Christ as water for sanctification canot have the testimony of blood and his interest in it for justification For Christ justifies none but he also sanctifies the n. And he that hath not the testimony and witnesse in himself of his intrest in blood and water for justification sanctification cannot have the testimony and witnesse of the spirit sealing for these three agree in one all beare witness to one the same truth sc Christs comming dying to redeeme us from sin and all iniquity both in the guilt and in the filth of it both from the condemnation and from the domination of sin For the grace of God which bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men teacheth us that denying ungodlinesse and world y lusts we shâ—ud live soberly righteously and godlily in this present world looking for that blessed hope and glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ who gave himself for us that he might redeeme us from all iniquity and purifie unto himself a peculiar and choice people zealous of good works And for asmuch as no uncleane person can enter into the Kingdome of Heaven where the inheritance is For know ye
as it is made manifest in me and to declare what Faith we own and practise and what we do deny to that end that the simple may be informed and the way of truth cleered from such deceivers who are perverters of the Scriptures who would constrain people to follow their imaginations instead of truth as these men have done whose names are subscribed And now a few words in answer to that you call your first Principle First Principle That the Scripture is the rule of knowing God and living unto him which whoso doth not believe but betakes himself to any other way of discovering God instead thereof cannot be saved Answ The Scriptures are not the Saints rule of knowing God and living unto him but that which was before the Scriptures were written by which all the holy men of God knew him and here ye have made your selves manifest that ye have not the rule which Moses had which is the spirit of light by which he made himself known unto the sons of men and ye that teach people to walk in another rule are those that put light for darkness and darkness for light shewing forth the spirit of error and here ye pervert the Scripture and Moses words which prophesied of Christ Moses bad not the people walk by the Scripture neither did he tell them that living therein was the rule of knowing God but he directed them to the Life without which all their profession was abominable but ye are not come to walk in the Letter whose lips and practice doth not concord with it who are found acting those things which it declares against Matth. 23. who are called of men Master stand praying in the Synagogues which our Lord Jesus Christ cryed wo against and here your Faith and your Principle is descryed who are not so much as found acting in that which you call your rule Now lest you should boast in your glory and the simple be stumbled by your subtilty I am moved of the Lord to open and discover unto all that your Faith is no more then all the ungodly in this Nation doth profess and also that the Rule whereby the Saints are guided is that which was before the Scripture was First it is professed generally in this Nation that believing in the Scriptures is the rule of knowing God this have you preached for Doctrine among the people and yet the way of God is hidden from their eys who are found acting in the abominations of the Heathen as doth plainly appear by the sins of this people nay what sin is there that is not committed amongst this people which have professed the Scripture to be their rule and you that pretend to be their teachers are the greatest examples of their wicked practices Crying peace peace unto them when there is no peace one building a wall and another dawbing it with untempered morter but ye shall proceed no further but your folly shall be made manifest to all men Our rule is that whiâ—h Moses walked in and Abraham and David and all the Prophets which is Christ Jesus the light of the world which whosoever believeth not in him hath not God Moses walked in him Abraham believed in him and David delighted in his Law which is perfect and here we deny you who deny that rule in which the holy men of God walked in Second Principle That there is a God who is the Creator and Judge and Governor of the world and is to be known by Faith Answ The Saints God ye are ignorant of who put light for darkness and darkness for light and before him ye cannot stand in judgement who are found working wickedness making people believe that believing in a thing without them will bring them to the knowledge of God which none can know or understand but through death and if ever ye come to know this God whom the Saints worship in Spirit and Truth ye must witness a day of vengeance to pass through therefore stop your mouths ye proud and lustful ones the day of recompence is come in which ye shall receive double for all your wickedness The Lord is our Iudge our Law-giver and our King and this we witness though we had never seen the Scripture And here we deny you and your principles which is no more than that which the world professeth Therefore be ye ashamed ye wicked and ungodly ones who live in the beastly nature who knows no more of God than what ye have without in the Scriptures which they spoke forth that witnessed him before the Scriptures were written him we own and witness to be our King by him we are redeemed out of your generation glory to his name for ever who hath made himself manifest in us and hath brought us to that which was before the Scripture was Third Principle That this God who is Creator is eternally distinct from all other Creatures in his being and blessedness Ans God ye know not neither can ye see him but are found persecutors of him who would divide him from what he is by heathenish inventions which ariseth out of the corrupt sensual part which never shall inherit the Kingdom The being of God is not distinct from them that are begotten by him For as the Father and the Son are one without distinction so are they that are begotten by him and here you perverters of the truth are shut forth from God with all your distinctions and imaginations which ariseth out of the dark mind by which ye have all this while deceived the people Woe unto you ye enemies of God your foundation your compass and your end is made manifest unto the children of light who would divide God from his children whom he hath begotten unto himself through the word of faith in which we live and abide for ever And here I challenge you before the Lord to produce one Scripture which speaks of God being distinct from them that are begotten by him and if you cannot prove your words by plain Scripture let shame cover your faces and stop your mouthes for ever And for your fourth thing That God is three persons or substances this is also another of your lies never such a word is declared of in Scripture and thus have you made your folly manifest to all men and have cleared your selves from the Scriptures God is a mystery in whom the foundation of all things stands and he is but one in all though ten thousand times ten thousand Woe unto ye you perverters of the truth who blinds the eyes of the simple making them believe your imaginations and conceivings in stead of truth and this you run to the powers of the earth to propagate Ye men of sin did ever the Prophets declare of such Gospel as this or did ever the Apostles preach any such doctrine as this which ye would compel people to believe and would have the powers of the earth to propagate Here I challenge you again to prove your example
by Scripture and where ever the holy men of God did divide him into three substances And if ye refuse to prove the same I proclaim as in the presence of the Lord that ye are perverters of the Scriptures and of the right way of the Lord and your propagating the Gospel and your principles are accursed from God having no example in Scripture Fifth Principle The fifth is That Christ is the Mediator between God and man without the knowledge of whom there is no salvation Answ Him we witness made manifest in us who is the Mediator but what have you to do to speak of his name or profess his words who are found in the steps of the Scribes Pharisees that put him to death who are called of men Master have uppermost rooms at feasts stand praying in the synagogues as they did that Christ cried wo against Math. 23. Thus you are separated from Christ who are not found in his doctrine and are found among the Heathen whom the condemnation is upon and the Scripture bare testimony against you that you are not in the doctrine of Christ but are found to be lyars 1 Joh. 2. â—2 and the acts of your fathers you are found acting And in the sixth you say that Christ is the true God Here you be witnesses against your selves that you divide the Father from the Son who you say is three distinct substances But the Lord will make you manifest ye that blindfold the simple by your subtilty and witchcraft making them believe lyes in stead of truth and would divide that in which there is no division for he that hath the Son hath the Father also This man Christ Jesus who was made with an oath the everlasting covenant the oath of God is not divided from him in whom the foundations stand for without this man Jesus was nothing made and as he was so he is He that hath an ear to hear let him hear And here Sottish minds your imagined God beyond the stars and your carnal Christ which you would make appear through your heathenish Philosophy is utterly denied and testisted against by the light which comes from Christ which ye resist as your forefathers have done And in your seventh Principle ye are laid open 1 Joh. 4. 2. Hereby know we the Spirit of God every spirit that confesseth Christ come in the flesh is of God and this is he that is one with the Father even Jesus Christ the man of God who was given for a covenant but him ye are enemies unto And whereas you say in the eighth that this Christ the man of God is God and Man in one person it is a lye He is not divided from what he was before the foundations of the hills were laid but him ye know not but as ye do imagine and the Heathens do and here you are shut forth from the Scriptures and from Christ and the new man which is witnessed in the sons of God Therefore stop your mouths for ever who would make people believe that believing in those words which are declared from the Life without the same spirit as they had that spoke them forth will bring them to the same knowledg of God And thus in your Ninth you have also shewed forth your ignorance and telling people that Christ hath paid a ransom for sin This is witnessed by the children of light but what have ye to do to take these words into your mouths that never yet came to repentance for sin and if ever you witness him a Redeemer you must witness the vengeance of God which is upon the man of sin But you men of sin who live in your filthiness shall receive your recompence from the hand of the Lord and this ye shall eternally witness whether you will hear or forbear And as for the eleventh that Christ being the onely God and man in one person remains for ever a distinct person from all Saints and Angels notwithstanding their union and communion with him your words are utterly denied and detested and your distinctions are abominable I challenge you from the Lord to prove such a thing in Scripture or else stop your mouths for ever for Christ Jesus is but one in all and not distinct and you that would divide him and them that are begotten by him are enemies unto him As for the twelfth That all men by nature are dead in trespasses and sins this is fulfilled in you and ye shall receive the wages of it ye men of sin whose ungodly practises are laid open and discovered to the children of light who have obtained the victory And I tell you plainly that vengeance of God hangs over your heads and the recompence of God shall be doubled upon you that live in your sins except ye repent ye shall likewise perish And whereas ye say ye are justified and saved by grace ye are they that have turned the grace of God into wantoness and holds the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ with respect of persons as is made manifest by you daily And in your last you say That to continue in any known sin under what pretence soever is damnable Here be you witnesses against your selves that ye are proud and that ye live in the practice of the world which is sin and seek for your gain from your quarters which is sin and the Lord sent his prophets to declare against such and the same woe from God is upon you that act the same things Isa 56. 11. And here your practice and example is found among the false prophets of Israel which the Lord sent his true prophets to declare against which received his word from his own mouth for which they were both persecuted and stoned by your generation which professed that in words which they persecuted in the Saints who witnessed the life and power of what they spake Thus have ye brought shame upon your selves ye deceitful workers who are professing that outwardly in words which ye are enemies to the life of So from the Scriptures ye are razed out and your bottom and foundation is made manifest to the children of light and your deceits are made manifest by them that walk in the light at which you are stumbling as your forefathers did though you profess the words declared from the light Thus have I returned an answer to your confused Paper lest you should boast your selves in your folly and blind the eyes of the simple by your heathenish inventions as ye have formerly done and have laid your shame open unto the simple-minded that they may discover and see your confusion And now a word unto you from whom this Paper was put forth Your spirits and your actings are contrary to the Spirit of Christ as having no example from him not his Apostles for it be ye ashamed and stop your mouthes from professing godliness who are found in the pride and in the wickedness of this world out of which the Ministers of
Reader how they offer violence to him by their suspitious expressions sometimes concerning his Divinity sometimes his Humanity sc the truth of his humane nature calling him the Man of God urging the words as of the Article whereas they say God and Man as in the 8. Article following where thou shalt have them timely exprest But I am not willing to deal upon suspitions although there be ground enough to charge them And I profess I am weary with raking in the stinking puddle of their blasphemous writings Only I desire thee Reader to remind one blasphemous position of these men exprest in the last mentioned peece viz. The sword drawn In the answer to the 7. Principle the Quaker says that whereas they in the Article say that Christ the man of God is God and man in one person it is says the Quaker a lye And I cannot omit what I had almost forgot to tell thee what account they make of Jesus Christ by an expression of one of their eminent Proselytes given out to an Inhabitant of this City one of credit who will make it good upon oath at any time when lawfully required Art thou such a fool said he as to hope to be saved by that Jesus Christ that died at Jerusalem sixteen hundred years ago And to contract that they do deny salvation by that Jesus Christ for they cant they juggle and equivocate when they speak of Christ I say that they do deny salvation by that Jesus Christ that died at Jerusalem in that way and whole manner and progress as is and hath been taught and professed in England ever since the Reformation from Popery is most manifest not only by what I have here declared but also by shuffling avoiding and not answering those plain questions in these things by several who well know their opinions proposed unto them And by quarrelling with and snarling at those solid Principles of Christian religion set forth by these godly learned and able Divines Dr. Goodwin Mr. Nye and Mr. Sidrach Simpson Yea and which doth most manifestly discover them to be wicked and ungodly liars and impostors by their mangling of their words and rendring them falsly as thou maist Reader perceive by comparing them when I shall presently give them unto thee And not only so but leaving out whole Articles of most eminent concernment and not so much as mentioning them because they durst not answer them for fear of being discovered 1. THat the holy Scripture is that rule of knowing God and living unto him which whoso doth not believe but betakes himself to any other way of discovering truth and the mind of God in stead thereof cannot be saved 2. That there is a God who is the Creator Governor and Judge of the world which is to be received by faith and every other way of the knowledge of him is insufficient Heb. 11. 3. 3. That this God who is the Creator is eternally distinct from all the creatures in his being and blessedness 4. That this God is one in three persons or subsistences 5. That Jesus Christ is the onely Mediator between God and man without the knowledg of whom there is no salvation 6. That this Jesus Christ is the true God 7. That this Jesus Christ is also true man 8. That this Jesus Christ is God and man in one person 9. That this Jesus Christ is our Redeemer who by paying a ransom and bearing our sins hath made satisfaction for them 10. That this same Lord Jesus Christ is he that was crucified at Jerusalem and rose again and ascended into heaven 11. That this same Jesus Christ being the onely God and man in one person remains for ever a distinct Person from all Saints and Angels notwithstanding their union and communion with him 12. That all men by nature are dead in trespasses and sins and no man can be saved unless he be born again repent and believe 13. That we are justified and saved by grace and faith in Jesus Christ and not by works 14. That to continue in any known sin upon what pretence or principle soever is damnable 15. That God is to be worshipped according to his own will and whosoever shall forsake and despise all the duties of his worship cannot be saved 16. That the dead shall rise and that there is a day of Judgment wherein all shall appear some to go into everlasting life and some into everlasting condemnation And now Reader observe besides as I said the mangling of their words and so perverting the sense as I could clearly make appear but that I dare not thrust my dull sickle into the harvest of those worthy and expert Labourers whose names shall live when their opposers shall rot in oblivion Observe that this Wretch besides his not answering to any one but evading and railing hath wholly left out the tenth and two last Look upon them again Reader and seriously consider them and then tell me what religion these men are of are they Christians And that thou maist not think this the judgment of this wretch alone thou shalt observe such dealings from his fellows when they come to questions of the like nature say nothing or evade them Good Reader I must again intreat thee to read those three omitted Articles and satisfie me or thy self why they are left out but that they are not willing to own and witness that the same Lord Jesus Christ God and man in one person which as thou hast seen before they said was a lier is he that was crucified at Jerusalem and rose again and ascended into heaven as the â—rticle expresses it and so of the other two And to add a little to this do but take notice of thâ—â—â— judgement concerning this Christ for they have another 〈…〉 hemselves take notice I say what they are charged with in that notable piece before quoted viz. The Perfect Pharisee Their seventh position there charged is That Christ in the flesh with all he did and suffered therein was but a figure and nothing but an example Which the Authors of that book thus assert by way of proof this meaning the last mentioned position is expresly found in their book called Sauls Errand to Damascus also this was written in that Letter which Naylor wrote to one in Lancashire which was objected against him by Dâ— Marshal upon account of another principle in it viz. That he that expected to be saved by him that died at Jerusalem should be deceived And this Mr. Jaques Minister at Bolton in Lancashire sent his testimony under his hand that he would make appear when sent for And they may well be thus bold with him that is a meer nullity a nothing if their opinion of him were true for they question if not deny and destroy his natures both divine and humane for which I will appeal to their expressions For as for his divine nature his absolute Godhead when as the eight Article proposed as before by Mr. Goodwin c. saies
Rom. 2. 5. 2 Thes 8 9. e Rom. â— 12. to the end of the â—6 v. Rev. 20. 12. Civil life f Prov. 21. 6. g Jer. 30. 23. h Prov. 22. 15. Deut. 13. 11. 17. 13. 19 20 â—1 12. iProv 12. 15. 6. 23. o Gal. 6 7. * Condition of faith by na 〈…〉 ure Eph. 2 312. 4. 17 18. Prov. 27. 19. Rom. 3. 10 11 12. Ib. Gal. 3. 10. Ja. 2. 10. k Heb. 6. 4. Act. 7. 51. m Luk. 10. 1â— 14. Rom. 2. 6 1 Pet. 1. 17. 2 Cor. 9. * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 b That as in a Prison under lock and key that he cannot get out c Job 10. 7. Psal 89. 48. Isa 43. 13. Psal 49. 7 8. Christ held forth d Jo. 5. 15. 16. e Eph. 1. 5. 9. f Rom. 3. 24. g Eph. 3. 10. h 1 Jo. beg i Mat. 4 2. Luk. 1. 78 79. Mat. 4. 10. Luk. 2. 32. Joh. 8. 12. 2 Cor. 4. 6. Col. 1. 12. 1 Pet. 2. 9. Rev. 21. 24. i Mat. 4 2. Luk. 1. 78 79. Mat. 4. 10. Luk. 2. 32. Joh. 8. 12. 2 Cor. 4. 6. Col. 1. 12. 1 Pet. 2. 9. Rev. 21. 24. k Heb. 2. 16. l 2 Pet. 2. 4. Heb. 2. 16. 14. Heb. 2. 17. Heb. 4. 15. Mediator m 1 Tim. 2. 5. Heb. 9. 15. 12. 24. Heb. 4. 15. Heb. 2. 18. Priest Heb. 2. 17. Contemplation n Rom. 11. 33. 1 Cor. 2. 9. 1 Joh. 4. 8. o Jo. 1. 14. 3. 16 1 Jo. 4. 9. Mat. 3. 17. c. p Jo. 3. 16. Rom. 5. 6. 10. q Job 22. 3. Psal 16. 2. r Job 35. 6 7 8 s Rom. 5. 7 8. t Luk. 2. 13 14 u 2 Thes 1. 8 9 w Eze. 16. 2 3 4 5. x Ezek. 16. 6 7 8. y Psal 2. 11. Heb. 12. 28. z Isa 63. 5. a Luk. 1. 68. 69 b Luk. 2. 11. c Isa 63. 1. d Isa 9. 6. e Gal. 4. 4 5. f Heb. 7. 22. g Rom. 8. 3 4. Mans state under the Law h Gen. 2. 15 16 Gal. 3. 10. i Rom. 5. 6. k Gen. 37. 1. Gal. 2. 16. 3. 11 Rom. 10. 5. Gal. 3. 12. 2 Cor. 3. 7. 2 Cor. 3. 9. Necessity of Christ l Rom. 5. 6. m Ib. n Jo. 1. 14. o Heb. 2. 10. p Gal. 3. 21. 22. 2. 21. q Rom. 10. 5. Gal. 3. 12. r Rom. 8. 3. s 2 Cor. 3. 7. t Rom. 7. 12. Christ incarnate u Jo. 1. 29. Eph 1. 4. 1 Pet. 1. 20. Rev. 13. 8. w Gal. 4. 4. x Jo. 1. 1 2 3. y Heb. 1. 2 3. Jo. 18. z Rom. 9. 5. Jo. 17. 2. a Phil. 2. 6. b Prov. 8. from 22. to 32. Jo. 17. 24. c Jo. 3. 16. c Jo. 3. 16. d Gen. 3. 15. e Gen. 12. 3. Gal. 3. 18. Gen. 18. 18. 26. 4. f Col. 2. 17. Heb. 10. 1. g Act. 26. 22. 28. 23. h Jo. 1. 29. i Rom. 8. 3. 4. k Rom. 3. 9. Gal. 3. 22. l 2 Cor. 5. 21. Gal. 3. 13 14 s Heb. 2. 14. t Act. 10. 18. u Isa 53. throughout w Mat. 27. 26. x Isa 53. 4 5 6 Reconciliation a 2 Cor. 5. 19. b Heb. 1. 1. 10 10. c Heb. 9. 14. d Heb. 10 12 e Eph. 2. 16. Col. 1. 20. 24. f Heb. 9. 22. g Heb. 10. 14. h Dan. 9. 24. 27 i Jo. 3. 15. k Rom. 8. 1 2. New Covenant with Christ l Isa 53. 10 11 12. m Act. 13. 38. 39 n 1 Pet. 2. 24. Sealed by his Resurrection o Act. 2. 32. 3. 15. 10. 40. 13. 30 33 34. p Act. 2. 24. Jo. 17. 4. 19. 30. q Gen. 3. 15. r 2 Tim. 2. 26. r 2 Tim. 2. 26. s Eph. 5. 8. Act. 26. 18. Eph. 6. 12. t Col. 1. 13. u Heb. 2. 14 15 Justification w Rom. 8. 33 34. x Rom. 4. 24 25. y Dan 9. 24. Confirmed by his Ascension z Jo. 16. 8. compared with v. 12. Heb. 10. 1. 2. Act. 20. 28. Heb. 9. 14. Session in glory a Eph. 4. 8. b Col. 2. 14 15. c 1 Pet. 1. 21. Mat. 22. 44. Act. 2. 30. 33. 36. Heb. 1. 13. Eph. 1. 20. Heb. 1. 3. 10. 1â— 13. d Rom. 16. 20. Heb. 2. 14 15. Intercession b Psal 2. 6. Jo. 12. 15. 1 Cor. 15. â—4 c Act. 3. 21. 2 Thes 1. 8 9 10. Act. 17. 31. 2 Tim. 4. 1. d Rom. 2. 5 6. The Believers Confidence a Heb. 9. 24. Rom. 8. 34. Heb. 7. 24 25. 1 Jo. â— 1 1. a Ezra 9. 6 7. Dan. 9. 7 8. Gen. 32. 10 b Heb. 4. 16. 10. 21 22. Eph. 3. 12. c 1 Jo. 2. 1 2. d Rom. 4. 5. 8. 33. e Heb. 7. 22. f Rom. 4. 24 25 g Gen. 18. â—5 h Rom. 3. 25 26. Ministers of reconciliation a 2 Cor. 5. 18 19. b M. 28. 19 20. c 2 Cor. 5. 20. d Eph. 3. 8 9. 1. 18. e Ibid. f Eph. 2. 14. g Gal. 3. 28 h Isa 55. 1 2. Lu. 24. 6. Zech. 13. 1. i Mat. 11. 28 29. k Jo. 1. 12. l Ia. 2. 5. New Sect. Ability given to know and receive Christ a Rom. 10. 4. 5. 17. b Rom. 5. 9 10 c Rom. 10. 3. d Jo. 17. 6. e Rom. 8. 28. Eph. 1. 9. 3. 1â— f 2 Tim. 2. 19. g 1 Jo. 5. 20. And tobe in him a 1 Jo. 5. 12. b 1 Jo. 5. 10. c Mat. 3. 17. 2 Pet. 1. 17. d Eph. 2. 7. e Heb. 7. 25. f Eph. 5. 8. g Eph. 1. 5. Son-ship witnessed a Gal. 4. 5 6 7. b Eph. 1. 13. c Eph. 1. 13 14 d 8 Rom. 23. e Rom. 6. 14. f Jo. 16. 13. 1 Jo. 2. 27. g Jo. 16. 7. 2 Cor. 1. 4. h Rom. 8. 26. i Rom. 8. 15 16 Justification witnessed a 1 Jo. 5. 7. b 1 Jo. 5. 4. d Jo. 19. 34. c 1 Jo. 5 6. h 1 Jo. 5. 8. Who ever is a childe of God by faith in Christ to justifie him Hath the Spirit of Adoption to to sanctifie him which seales to him his interest in the compleat and perfect work of Redemption from all his spirituall enemies sin as well as Satan e Jo. 3. 33 to the end f Gal 4. 6. Sanctification witdessed g Eph. 5. 24. 26. 27. i Titus 11. 2. 11 22 13 14. i Titus 11. 2. 11 22 13 14. a 1 Cor. 6. 9 10. b Rev. 21. 27. c Eph. 5. 27. d 1 Pet. 1. 18. e Bph. 4. 20 21 f Eph. 4. 18. g Ib. h Eph. 4. 23. i Eph. 2. 10. k Eph. 4. 22 Col. 3. 8. l Eph. 5. 4 m Eph. 4. 29. n Heb. 13. 5. o Phil. 1. 27 p 1 Jo. 3. 3. q 2 Tim. â— 10 r 2 Thes 2. 13. Å¿ Rom. 16. 26. Gal. 5. 6. t 1 Jo. 4. 19. u 2 Cor. 5. 14 15. w Phil. 1. â—0 21. x Phil. 3. 3 4 5 6. y Phil. 3. 8 9. z Prov. 14. 16. Eccles 7. 20. 1 Jo. 1. 8. 10. Psal 19. 12 Ia. 3. â— a Phil. 3. 13 14 b 2 Cor. 5. 1. 4. c Phil. 3. 14. d Phil. 3. 10. e Ib. 11. A Christians ingagement by Baptisme a Gal. 3. 27. b Gal. 5. 3. c Gal. 3. 27. Rom. 6. 3 4 5 6. d Rom. 6. per tot e Rom. 5. 10 21 f Rom. 6. 1. g Rom. 6. 2. h Rom. 6. per totum i Rom. 5 10 11 12 13 Often use of Lords Supper a Luk 22. 19. 1 Cor. 11. 24 25. b 1 Cor. 11. 26. The grounds and ends of this Mysterie of Godlinesse thus ordered in a way of Free-grace a Jer. 9. 23. 1 Cor. 1. 29 30 31 c. b Rom. 4 2 c Ps 143. 2. Acts 13. 39. Rom. 3. 20. d Rom. 3. 27. e Jer. 9. 23. 1 Cor. 1. 19 30 f Rom. 3. 24 25. g Rom. 3. 16. 1 Jo. 5. 10. Mark 16. 16. A farther manifestation of free-grace a Jo. 1. 12. b 2 Thes 3. 2. c Heb. 11. 6. d Rom. 8. â—8 e Eph. 2. 8. Phil. 1. 29. f 2 Cor. 3. 5. g Ib. Phil. 1. 13. Heb. 12. beg 2. h 1 Pet. 5. 10. i Luk. 22. 32. k Eph. 1. 19. 20. 2 Thes 1. 11. l Eph. 2. 10. 2. Cor. 5. 17. Gal. 6. 15. m ib. Eph. 2. 15 4. 24. Col. 3. 10 n Ezek. 36. 26. o Ezek. 11. 19. p 1 Cor. 11. 4. q Rom. 4. 16. 5. 20. Zech. 4. 7. r Rom. 11. 6. s Luk. 2. 14. Eph. 1. 6. 3. 21. Saints security Qua supra a 1 Cor. 15. 45. 47 49. b Qua supra c Job 4. 18 19. d 1 Pet. 1. 3. 4. 5. e Heb. 13. 5. 2 Cor. 12. 9. f Rom. 4. 16. Mans strong ingagement to duty a Jer. 31. 3. Hos 11. 4. b Ezek. 6. beg c 2 Cor. 5. 14. 15 d Act. 17. 13. 2 Tim. 4. 1. e Rev. 22. 20. a Acts 20. 28 29 30 31 2 Tim. 2. 10. Tit. 1. 1. 1 Pet. 1. 2. 1 Pet. 2. 6. 1 Pet. 5. 13. They belye the Profession But why is the 10 Article left out Reader thou shalt have it anon Why do you not put doun all most abominable impostors Why do you cut short the 13 article too This is not the last there are two more which Reader thoushalt have in to discover these enemies to truth and the Gospel I must take the questions as these Quakers set them down for that they doe belye men in misreciting their words I shall prove afterwards a p. 2 3. b p. 3 4. Ans to 3. Art Answ to the 4th Art or Principle Answer to four Art by Howgil a Barr. Also what it is to go through Farnworth exponds in his Answer Truths defence p 69. Sword of the 〈◊〉 drawn p. 5. Truths defence pag. 78. Truths Defence saies that the faith of God justifies alone without imputation and thy imputed faith say they we deny Page 93. Short Answer to the Priests p. 15. Truths defence p. 10. Short Answer to the seven Priests p. 20. Truths defence P. 39.